Demetrius Williams

Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies (Comparative Literature Program)

Education

ThD, Harvard Divinity School, 1997
Major: New Testament and Christian Origins
MDiv, Harvard Divinity School, 1990
Major: Pastoral Care and Counseling; Scripture and Interpretation
MTS., Harvard Divinity School, 1988
Major: Scripture and Interpretation
BA, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 1986
Major: Comparative Religion

Courses Taught

Introduction to the New Testament
Literature of Early Christianity
Paul the Apostle
Dead Sea Scrolls
Literature of Second Temple Judaism
Gnosticism
The Bible in the African American Experience
The Bible and Literary Analysis
Introduction to World Religions
Introduction to Religious Studies

Research Interests

Pauline Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis
Empire Studies and Biblical Studies
Cultural Studies and Biblical Studies
African American Biblical Hermeneutics
Post-Modern, Post-Colonial and Ideological Studies

Teaching Interests

Religious Controversy
Conflict Resolution
Narrative Analysis
World Scriptures
Literary Theory and Religious Literature

Publications

Williams, D. K. (2012, June). African American Approaches: Re-humanizing the Reader against Racism and Reading Through Experience. Marchal, J. A. (Ed.). Studying Paul's Letters: Contemporary Perspectives and Methods, 155-73. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

Williams, D. K. (2012, June). "'No Longer as a Slave: 'Reading' the Interpretation History of Philemon". Johnson, M. V., Noel, J. A., & Williams, D. K. (Eds.). Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race and Slavery in Philemon, 11-45. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

Noel, J. A., Johnson, M. V., & Williams, D. K., eds. (2012). Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race and Slavery in Philemon. Minneapolis: Fortress Books.

Williams, D. K. (2009, July (3rd Quarter/Summer)). ’Upon All Flesh’: Acts 2 and Intersectional Realities. Bailey, R. C., Benny Liew, T., & Segovia, F. F. (Eds.). They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism, Semeia Studies No. 57, 289-310. Society of Biblical Literature.

Williams, D. K. (2007). Acts of the Apostles. Blount, B. K., Felder, C. H., Martin, C. J., & Powery, E. B. (Eds.). True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary, 213-48. Fortress Press.